This workshop uses Elena Aguilar's book
Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators (2018) as a springboard to reflect and build practices to sustain educators in the profession. In this workshop, participants will reflect on the emotional components of teaching and the affordances and limitations of their current habits and practices. This reflection will include grappling with the complex and challenging structures and systems educators work within that often impact the ability to take care of oneself. Then, they will examine strategies and practices intended to cultivate emotional resilience. The practice section will include engaging in some mindfulness exercises and a look at the research on combating compassionate fatigue. Finally, participants will create individualized goals related to how they will build their emotional resilience in the next school year.
Learning Goals- Participants will engage in reflection on the emotional components of teaching and the affordances and limitations of their current habits and practices.
- Participants will examine strategies and practice strategies intended to cultivate emotional resilience, including short mindfulness exercises and a look at the research on compassionate fatigue.
- Participants will create individualized goals related to how they will build their emotional resilience in the next school year.
